Flash Site Design - Scrolling text & graphics?....

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Scrolling text & graphics?....

lozzzz webforumsuser@macromedia.com

2003-12-13, 5:05 pm

Hi, I'm getting really desperate now.

Does anybody know how I can create scrolling text & graphics? This is turning out to be a nightmare for me.

I'm designing a site with a short page that does not scroll in the browser but scrolls within a small section of a Flash page.

If this is too complicated for me to do then my site would have to have long pages that can be scrolled with the browser's bar, but this would spoil the uniform design.

Thanx for any help or suggestions, Loz.

PS. I find Director much easier to use, is there any way I can import a Director projector into flash?

Critical Mechanism

2003-12-14, 11:09 am

Just create a text, change it to dynamic, make it multiline, and then
draganddrop a slider from the tools menu. Simple and easy.

For the graphics- www.flashkit.com it's a little complicated.

"lozzzz" <webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote in message
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> Hi, I'm getting really desperate now.
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> Does anybody know how I can create scrolling text & graphics? This is

turning out to be a nightmare for me.

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> I'm designing a site with a short page that does not scroll in the browser

but scrolls within a small section of a Flash page.

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> If this is too complicated for me to do then my site would have to have

long pages that can be scrolled with the browser's bar, but this would spoil
the uniform design.

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> Thanx for any help or suggestions, Loz.
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> PS. I find Director much easier to use, is there any way I can import a

Director projector into flash?

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pazzoboy webforumsuser@macromedia.com

2003-12-14, 11:09 am

1. Click the frame in the timeline and put your text or graphic at the bottom of the stage. In the same layer, right-click the timeline 20 frames to the right. Click on "insert keyframe".
2. Highlight your text/graphic and drag it to the top of the stage (i.e., the direction in which it will scroll). Make sure the x-coordinate stays the same.
3. Right-click on the timeline where you first put the text/graphic. Click on "motion tween". Test your movie. Your stuff should float to the top.
4. Now, insert a new layer just above the one where your text/graphic is. In that layer, draw a rectangle where you want your text to actually appear...location, height and width. Make sure it's as wide as your text/graphic, and the x-coordinate is the
same.
5. Right-click the layer where your rectangle is. Click on "mask".
6. Test your movie.... your text/graphic should appear in that one spot, scrolling news-ticker style. If you want to eliminate any delay before it appears, then go to the first frame in the layer where you first put your text/graphic, and drag it to jus
t below the rectangle.
7. Brag to all your friends how you created this effect on your own (that's what I did when I learned it here!)
~Pazzoboy

Laiverd.COM

2003-12-14, 11:09 am

If you're using MX2004 and willing to publish for Flash Player 7, you can
simply use HTML text inside an HTML-enabled texfield. The <IMG> tag is now
supported. Then simply add a scrollbar to the textfield.

John

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Skim Milk webforumsuser@macromedia.com

2003-12-15, 4:27 pm

Insert a scroll pane on your stage. Create a new movie clip with your content in it, images, text, everything arranged how you want it to look. Give the movie clip a name like myContent and make sure you check the export for actionscripting box, leave t
he identifier as myContent

Now click on the scroll pane and in the properties panel type myContent, hit ctrl+enter to test your movie and make sure your content shows up, then adjust the horizontal/vertical scroll options to disable unwanted scroll bars.

You're done, now you have scrolling content.

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Matt Terry

2004-04-28, 10:30 pm

Can someone provide a more in-depth description of how to accomplish this?

Thanks Matt

Kathy

2004-04-29, 5:37 pm

Try this:
http://www.actionscript.org/tutoria...XML/index.shtml

Matt Terry wrote:

> Can someone provide a more in-depth description of how to accomplish this?
>
> Thanks Matt